Everyone’s been talking about comedian Kevin Hart and the 40+ antigay tweets that resurfaced from his Twitter page last week. The tweets included gay jokes, AIDS jokes, and homophobic slurs and ultimately resulted in Hart withdrawing from hosting the 91st Academy Awards.
Our pal Lamar Dawson over at NewNowNext caught up with Kressley on the red carpet at Cyndi Lauper’s Home for the Holidays concert where he asked the former Queer Eye star for his two cents on the whole scandal.
“Don’t mess with the gays,” Kressley said without missing a beat. “That’s all I have to say.”
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49-year-old Kressley continued, “It’s unfortunate when that happens. It’s not great for anybody, but I’m sure they’ll find someone magnificent and wonderful and will do a killer job.”
Asked who he’d like to see replace Hart as host for the 91st Academy Awards, and Kressley wasted no time making a suggestion.
“I’m a Jimmy Kimmel fan,” he said. “I think he does a beautiful job.”
Kimmel hosted the both the 2017 and 2018 Academy Awards. In the past, he has also hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards, the American Music Awards, the ESPY Awards, and the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
According to his list of TV credits on Wikipedia, he will again be hosting the Academy Awards in 2019, but this has not yet been officially confirmed.
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thisisnotreal
“Don’t mess with the gays” yeah he ain’t wrong, we’ve become a friggin cult where your either on our side (sometimes just out of fear of pissing us off) or your the enemy. There doesn’t seem to be any neutral ground anymore, wake me up when our movement self implodes.
MISTERJETT
sorry, but i have to say something because what you did is a pet peeve of mine. when you say “your the enemy”, you really should say “you’re the enemy” – the contraction meaning “you are”. we teach that in fourth grade.
thisisnotreal
Fine Jett I’ll give you that one but in my defense typing on a phone keyboard makes me lazy and I don’t wanna have to hunt for punctuation lol.
Greg
then you should have included the “e”. But, you weren’t lazy enough to put the ‘ in the word “ain’t”, which isn’t really a word or a contraction of anything. Just messing with you.
Ashke113
Misterjett get over it, this isn’t school and if you care that much go teach inner city children and turn out better people instead of playing a keyboard know it all. Thank you for playing……
prarie pup
Who gives a rat’s butt what Kevin Hart says or thinks? He is NOT FUNNY and his movies are juvenile trash. Why is he even famous?
Wicked Dickie
Carson Kressley is “gay famous”, Kevin Hart is “famous famous”. That’s the difference.
Ashke113
Carson speaks like he’s still relevant and his word carries weight in the gay comminity. Sadly he’s been relegated to the funny quirky gay uncle that comes to EVERY family function whether he’s invited or not. Thankfully now he can only be seen as a judge on RPDR and only in the last minutes. Go away Carson no one cares what you have to say……